FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress this week that he is “very concerned” that Beijing could weaponize information obtained through the popular app TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese business ByteDance.Information Guide Nigeria
During a Tuesday hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee on global threats, Wray warned of the possibility that the Chinese government may use the video-sharing app to persuade users or control their devices.
Wray said application programming interfaces, or APIs, that ByteDance embeds in the short-form video hosting are a national security concern because Beijing could use them to “control data collection of millions of users or control the recommendation algorithm, which can be used for influence operations.”
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